museum of the stone Age

The
Palaeolithic, or early stone age period began in Britain Between 800,000
and 1 million
years ago and lasted until the end of the last ice age, around 12,000
years ago. For much of that time, Britain was an arctic region of
glaciers or tundra. But during warmer interglacial periods successive
waves of humans occupied the region. Very few sites of habitation are
known. The earliest is at Happisburgh (Pronounced Hazeboro) on the
Norfolk coast which is as much as a million years old. Another notable
site is that near the village of Boxgrove, just
outside Chichester in West Sussex, which is 550,000 years old.
Many of the
Palaeolithic tools found in England have not been found at such sites of
habitation but
in river terrace gravels where they were deposited by the waters from
rivers and melting glaciers.